{"id":638,"date":"2022-07-21T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/?p=638"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:36:11","slug":"finally-strung-up-my-hy-lo-hollow-body-guitar-vintage60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/2022\/07\/21\/finally-strung-up-my-hy-lo-hollow-body-guitar-vintage60s\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally strung up my Hy Lo hollow body guitar vintage60s !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading recommendations online I decided to try out Ernie Ball skinny bottom fat top strings.<br \/>\nI was stunned how good this Hy Lo is as a player.<br \/>\nLowest action of any acoustic I&#8217;ve ever played by a long shot. NO buzz on this neck &#8211; holy crap!<\/p>\n<p>E Major chords sound amazing hitting it hard. It sounds unlike any other guitar I own.<br \/>\nThis has a huge thick neck of 1&#8243; thick at the first and twelve fret. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I had &#8216;gone too far&#8217; this time with chasing thick neck guitars, but nope, it&#8217;s not too far at all. I really like it. I really love this guitar, I think it&#8217;s shot up to my 4th favorite guitar rank which took my by surprise.<br \/>\n(my #1 Washburn A20V, #2 &#8216;Mystery Vermont&#8217; mahogany two piece vintage Explorer, #3 Arbor headless licensed Steinberger).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get the pickuup \/ wiring \/ output straightened out and hear it on my amp.<br \/>\nI also probably have to get a better \/ proper spring for the fake Bigsby copy tremolo, the spring I found and popped in there basically mushed out and it won&#8217;t allow the trem to basically work at all.<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;ll get the pickguard more securely back on as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading recommendations online I decided to try out Ernie Ball skinny bottom fat top strings. I was stunned how good this Hy Lo is as a player. Lowest action of any acoustic I&#8217;ve ever played by a long shot. NO buzz on this neck &#8211; holy crap! E Major chords sound amazing hitting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[150,132,131,116,130,7,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}